Man Sought For Slaying In Harvey

August 19, 1987

Harvey police were searching Tuesday for a suspect in an apparently drug- related shooting that killed a Kankakee man and seriously wounded a friend.

Police said Wilfered Johnson, 22, was shot once in the back and once in the right arm at about 5:30 a.m. after an argument on a Harvey street with a man police declined to identify. The second victim, Anthony Bryant, 18, of Harvey, was undergoing surgery Tuesday at Ingalls Memorial Hospital, Harvey, for a gunshot wound in the stomach. He was listed in fair condition.

A gun was recovered at the scene although police said it was apparently not the weapon used in the shooting. Police Inspector Bernita Lucas said the scene of the shooting was a ``high drug area`` although no drugs were recovered.

It was the second homicide in three days in the south suburb. On Sunday, 57-year-old Thomas Stanepher was stabbed to death apparently during a robbery.

Stanepher was stabbed five times with a kitchen knife, which the man`s son told police he found and placed on a coffee table after he discovered the body.

Investigators were questioning the son as well as two boarders who rented rooms from Stanepher, although no arrests have been made. Inspector Lucas said a money pouch Stanepher kept with him was missing.